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Quotes About Reflection

Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The power of the past to still dominate our thinking today.
~ John Guare
The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.
~ John Podhoretz
I think there's a lot of power in admitting that you don't know everything.
~ Kit Williamson
Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.
~ Lewis H. Lapham
If we can use our problems and illnesses as opportunities to think about how we can change our lives, we have power.
~ Louise Hay
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
~ Lucretius
Us as rappers underestimate the power and effects that we have on these kids
~ Macklemore
It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
~ May Sarton
Your past is always useful to you: If you are happy with your past, you get power from it; if you are unhappy with your past, you take lesson from it!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in The Practice than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.
~ Michael Emerson
The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely; but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.
~ Michel de Montaigne
For many people, there is an almost power to be found in prayer.
~ Mohsin Hamid
How can we truly understand who we are unless we know who we were and what we have the power to become?
~ Neal A. Maxwell
Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace.
~ Nhat Hanh
I got a little tired of movies where I had to shoot people. I got to thinking about the power of film and what that power is. The power is in fact that it really can change people's minds.
~ Nicolas Cage
Silence is a place of great power and healing.
~ Rachel Naomi Remen
The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind.
~ Richard Whately
We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.
~ Susan Cain
They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.
~ Tim O'Brien
Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.
~ Victor Hugo
...speak to me as to thy thinkingAs thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughtsThe worst of words...
~ William Shakespeare, Othello
To be or not to be that is the question.
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet